Because I have to.
I quit trying to rationalize it even to myself a long time ago.
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Because I have to.
I quit trying to rationalize it even to myself a long time ago.
:rolleyes: If you prefer, I can "expand" on the very brief wording that I used in #4 from "It's cool" to "It's challenging and I want to conquer it." Or maybe that more or less falls under "dominating nature", don't you think? Or do you think it's a different reasoning simply because it's a different word choice?
Yup I agree^^^ bearchaser . Good thread though important thanks
I have not hunted for or put in a LEH for Grizzly as of yet. I hunt Black Bear in the spring , more for the excuse to get out in the woods again than anything else. The two I have harvested were not wasted though. The meat was quite good , and much appreciated. I am a hunter, and the reasons for being a hunter have already been mentioned here. The challenge and the accomplishment , I think, are the key aspects that I am seeking. To someone who has never hunted, pulling a carrot out of the ground is not the same.
I read a book last year that detailed the account of a Grizzly Bear attack on a young couple and the years of recovery that followed. On my hunting trip in the Okanagan Region last year we saw a Grizz. Very close to where many people go camping , fishing, hiking, etc. If they knew that , would they still go there? I know that I don't want them that close my recreating area. Think I will be putting in for the "draw" for that area next season.
This is an interesting one. "I hunt because I can." Arguably, the grizzly hunts for food. I'm guessing (and I might be wrong, I'm no expert on animal behaviour) that the grizzly probably doesn't "waste" much of what it kills (by that I just mean that it eats most of it...although I know some is left for scavengers).
4, I think?
A category unto itself, for sure.
No judgment here, man...definitely not wrong! I think it'd just make me sweaty, though...
Revanant #5!
This fits in a bit with Dougie's comment above...I'd think.
I hunt Grizzly because I'm on the top of the food chain.
I think you are actually wrong to try and lump them all in your own self-made category when there are in fact several other opinions that don't agree with your "system" of deciding what "fits" where. Yes, they may fall under that for you, but I'd say there are several other reasons that people hunt ANY species so depending on whose list the definitions would all be different.
Just my thoughts on why there will be disagreement. I have a few reasons I hunt grizz, but they don't fall perfectly under your categories nor do I want them bunched how you see fit.
Mr silver: i also listened to that podcast and perhaps heard it differently, as in i thought the bio was saying that bears do account for quite a few dead elk calves.
Regardless, i feel yellowstone and other national parks should not be looked at as nature in its natural state, as humans do not hunt these animals. North america has been a hunting ground for humans for at least 15,000 years, this is the natural state.
Food for thought?